Improvement in straw-cutters



A. HEVERLY.

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Patented Sept. 26,1876.

N PETERS, PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHER WASHINGTON, D C.

UNITED STAT S PATENT QFFIGE,

AMASA HEVERLY, OF NEw ALBANY, PENNSYLVANIA, AsSIeNoE TO.

HIMSELF AND PHILO MINGOS, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN STRAW-CUTTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 1 82,666, dated September 26, 1876; application filed 7 July 31, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AMASA HEVEELY, of New Albany, in the county of Bradford and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Stalk and Straw Gutter, of which the following is a specification:

My invention relates to a cutter, the knives of which are made with convex edges, and are attached to a bevel-toothed wheel running against the mouth of the cutter-box; and it consists of springs attached to the inside of the'cutter-box at suitable distance back of the cutters, and converging toward, and terminating a little in advance of, the cutters to open and close on the material being cut according to its volume, and to confine it mostly at the middle of the range of the cutters, whereby the machine works better and easier than when the box is open across the whole breadth, and the stalks are free to be urged away to the outer portion of the cutters.

Figure l is a plan view of my improved cutting-box and Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation, taken on the line .90 a2.

A is the cutting-box; B, the cutting-wheel; O, the cutters; D, the spring in the box to regulate the straw and other matters to the cutters by causing them to be presented at the middle of the box. E is the wheel for making the cutters work tight, and F the spring for pressing it against the wheel.- G is the driving-wheel H and I, the feed-rollers, and J the train of toothed wheels gearing the feed AMA'SA BEVERLY.

Witnesses 0. H. ROCKWELL, E. F. FOWLER. 

